Framing Faust [electronic resource] : Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hedges, Inez.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--German influences.

Faust, -approximately 1540--In motion pictures.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Legends--History and criticism.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Legends--Influence.

Civilization, Modern.

Faust.

Local Subjects:

Civilization, Modern--German influences.

Faust, -approximately 1540--In motion pictures.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Legends--History and criticism.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Legends--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonistic-yet complementary-figures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions.Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles pursues a dia

Contents:

Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction: Inventions of Faust; 1. Faust and Early Film Spectatorship; 2. German Fascism and the Contested Terrain of Culture; 3. Socialist Visions: Faust and Utopia; 4. Gendering Faust; 5. Anti-Fausts and the Avant-Garde; 6. Oneiric Fausts: Repression and Liberation in the Cold War Era; Conclusion: Reframing the Faustian Question; Selected Filmography: Chronology of Faust Films; Notes; Selected Bibliography: Faust in Myth and Legend; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

842589116